AUBURN, N.Y. -- The Citizen newspaper in Auburn informed readers this morning that it will stop publishing a Monday edition as of April 1. The newspaper will return to the six-days-a-week publication schedule it followed prior to 1999, Publisher Michael Rifanburg wrote in an online column.

"The change to a six-day newspaper will help your local newspaper company remain healthy,'' Rifanburg wrote. He noted that the company has made strong progess with its digital edition and on social media.

"Our print readership is still strong and we will continue to print a newspaper as long as it makes sense to do so,'' Rifanburg wrote. The Citizen published six days a week until 1999, when it added a Saturday edition.